The Knick - Season 1 Review

: Steven Soderbergh directed, shot, and edited all 10 episodes himself. This gives the season an incredibly cohesive, atmospheric, and modern aesthetic despite its 1900 setting.

Directed entirely by Steven Soderbergh, this period drama is widely considered a masterpiece of its era. 🩺 Why It Is a Solid Piece of Television

: Instead of a traditional, dusty period score, the show utilizes a pulsing, electronic synth soundtrack by Cliff Martinez that makes the era feel alive, dangerous, and urgent.

: It brilliantly tackles the intersection of early modern science, class divides, institutional corruption, and systemic racism in a rapidly growing New York City. The Knick is a great HBO series - Facebook

: The series pulls no punches in showing the brutal, gory reality of turn-of-the-century medicine before antibiotics.

: Clive Owen is magnetic as the brilliant but severely cocaine-addicted chief surgeon Dr. John Thackery. André Holland provides a brilliant counter-performance as Dr. Algernon Edwards, fighting both medical boundaries and systemic racism.